Folding -cot



(N0 Model.)

G. E. BEDELL.

FOLDING 001'. No. 274,455. Patented Mar.27,1883.

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SI'ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,455, dated. March 27, 1883.

Application filed January 6, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BEDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the village of Herhimer, Herkimer county, and State of New York, having invented and discovereda new and useful Folding (Jot, of which the following is a.- speciiication.

Myinvention relates to improvements in the method of folding an ordinary cot into a compact space by means of a longitudinal slot in one end of the side rail, so as to allow the side rails to oscillate when the legs of thecot are opened and shut. l attain this object by the means demonstrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows part of cot and legs, with the slotin the side rail. Fig. 2 shows end view of the cot open. Fig. 3 shows side view of the cot with legs open,*and dotted lines show cotwith legs half-shut. Fig. 4 shows cot folded into a compact space.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

, The nature and construction of my invention consists of an ordinary folding cot with two pairs of legs, sha-ped, three of which legs are loosely bolted or riveted to longitudinal bars or side rails, while the fourth leg is secured to the side rail by means of a bolt or rivet passing through the end of the leg into and through a longitudinal slot in the side rail. The length of the slot will he the thickness of the two legs of the cot, and of sufficient width to allow The legs of the cot, thus fastened or secured to the side bars, can be easily opened or closed by the oscillation oi the side rails by allowing the bolt or rivet to work in the slot by means of the fulcrum produced by the bolting or riveting the three legs to the side barsof the cot at unequal distances, so that the cot can be opened and closed into a compact space.

Having described the nature and construction of my invention and improvement, I will now describe its construction and operation by reference to the drawings.

AA represent the side bars of the cot. B B in Fig. 1 show the legs of the cot closed; B B, the legs and fastening, when working in the slot 0, bolted or riveted t0 the side bar; 0, the

I longitudinal slot in one end of the side rail, through which one of the legs of the cot is loosely bolted or riveted; l), the brace and pin to hold the legs in place when the cot is spread for use; E, pin to hold legs B B in position when the cot is opened for use. The oscillating motion of the side bar by means of the slot and rivet, or both, working in the same when the legs of the cot are opened or folded, is shown in Figs. 1, 3, and at of drawings.

I am a-ware'of folding cots with X-shaped legs attached to the side bars by means of bolts or rivets, with angle-ironsor hinges and other similar devices, by means of which the ends of the legs are deflected toward each other, so as to bring the pivoting-point of the legs to the side rail in the same axis, and that various devices have been resorted to to overcome the ditiiculty of bolting or riveting the legs to the side rails at unequal distances, thereby preventingfolding the legs inside of the side rails. I do not therefore malre a broad claim to a folding cot; but

Vvhat I do claim as my invention and discovery, and'that which I desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, in a portable foldingcot, having two pairs of legs X-shaped, three of which legs are loosely attached to the side bars by bolts or rivets, and the fourth leg loosely attached to the side bar by bolt or rivet passing through the top end of the leg through alongitudinal slot in the side rail corresponding in length to the width oi the two legs, the legs being so attached to the slotted end of the side rail as to allow the bolt orrivet to movein the slotwhen the legs of the cot areopened or closed, as described.

2. A movable side rail to a folding cot with X-shaped legs, and longitudinal slot S and bolt or rivet 0, so attached that the rail will oscillate by means of the slot S, rivet U, and fulcrum, so that the side bars will oscillate to allow the legs of the cot to be opened and closed or folded into a compact space, as and for the purposes specified.

GEO. E. BEDELL.

Witnesses:

EDWIN H. RIsLEY, WILLIAM P. QUIN. 

